Brian Garber

didn’t even take two years

Massive.

Mind spinning how this grinder has grown this year 🫡

There’s a common millennial / GenZ sadboi doomerism: “born too late to explore the Earth, born too early to explore the stars.” What they’re missing is that they’re born into a time with global air travel widely affordable to the west, and they can already buy a pair of earbuds that will reliably translate in real time between them and any stranger. More profound if you happen to think going multi-planetary will shrink down the human language base and push national cultures closer together to the point of being indistinguishable over the next millennium. It’s the first time in history, and perhaps closing in on being the last time, that a random member of the western laptop class will able to fully explore earthbound human culture. Born at just the right time to be a globetrotting armchair anthropologist.

Are you paying attention to @KarateCombat yet?

Being able to have literally anything delivered to your door in 24 hours was a fever dream, now it’s a reality that employs 1.1M Americans. Guy who did it is a SciFi nerd, now busy living the dream. How awful! Should’ve kept on as a socially productive quant trader instead 😂

For those who find this confusing, he's talking his book. That's his job, to live and breathe JPM 24/7/365. For the last decade, he has publicly dunked on crypto at every turn whilst privately still giving his high-level managers the flexibility to build out digital asset services and to make digital asset investments -- this is true at many major banks. His tune will change completely when/if he thinks JPM is poised to take full advantage of digital assets and blockchain tech, particularly if Wall Street broadly can engineer any sort of regulatory capture over DeFi. The guy at the top of an org that literally *is* the current financial system can't be a blockchain tech "system is broken we have to rebuild it" maxi until he's positioned his corp to be a major player under that paradigm, and decides it's a genuine existential threat to his legacy business units. There *is* someone whose job it is 24/7/365 to be that blockchain tech maxi guy; his name is Brian Armstrong. That's why you see Coinbase running ads that literally say "the system is broken, we have to rebuild it, hooray Coinbase."

It’s still so, so early.

This cycle, Web3 consumer apps and communities need to get really good at finding the line between brand building / marketing strategies that create healthy, upbeat FOMO -- and strategies that create negative, fear-based FOBTL (fear of being too late). The market for attention is going to become increasingly saturated as marketing budgets find steam again, and your target customers / prospective community members are going to be faced with a myriad of options. If your brand's marketing or community discourse give the impression that the ship has already sailed, or that the ground floor is full, you're going to lose prospective community members to brands that aren't gatekeeping. Onboard, welcome, celebrate, revel. It's not the time for gatekeeping or "stay poor" laser eyeing. The vibe isn't "we came so far already we don't need you." The vibe IS "we've come a long way, but it's still early in the race and we want you to come with us the rest of the way." This is something that top teams and founders (like those tagged below) understand implicitly, and the fruits of their efforts during the last 12 months of crab market apathy have already begun to show. @pudgypenguins @KarateCombat @LucaNetz @onlylarping @KanpaiPandas @icebagz_

This isn't going to happen without a crackdown because unregulated, permissionless access to US securities and financial markets at large isn't something the country actually wants. It's actually a terrible idea for a myriad of reasons I could probably write a thread about.

With KC43 coming up in Vegas in less than two weeks, now’s a great time to get familiar with @KarateCombat and Up Only Gaming. The ground floor still has plenty of room.

Anduril is the best thing to happen to our defense industry in decades.